BBC1 West Ident 1974 to 1976 (approx)

This is by no means accurate as I have never seen the original. It was described to me by a person who has seen it, and this is as close as I got to his description. Apparently the image should be more curved.

ITV Schools clock 1974

I've taken the liberty of replacing the normal library music that would accompany this clock with another piece of music that a friend suggested. If you are familiar with the music used normally with these clocks, you'll probably agree that the piece of music I have used is very similar in style. It is from the soundtrack to the film 'Rushmore'.

BBC2 1972 to 1974 era

BBC2's 1969 ident was on film and consisted of a rotating cube with coloured number 2's spinning round, after a lengthy formation sequence. In 1972, this was simplified and mechanised, coloured using Luma-Key with a blue background and cyan ident. Here we see a start-up recreated from the era. Please forgive the slight mistake on the shadowing of the clock...

The original start up was something I found on YouTube...

Welcome to Pres Heaven

Pres Heaven started out as a website originally. Having never had a proper place for this website to reside and then losing the places I did have, I have suddenly decided it was better off as a blog anyway! The URL has been pointing to my YouTube channel for some time, but Firefox now tells me that YouTube don't allow you to display your channel in a frame any more, so it was a bit naff that you had to click to open in a new tab / window.


The blog will consist of my own recreations of British Television Idents and Presentation / Continuity paraphernalia. I do these in Flash, inspired by the brilliant Kecske Bak AKA Dave Jeffery. I will get around to doing something with the layout of the blog at some point.

I have to post the recreations as videos from my YouTube channel. Occasionally, I may have to upload them to the blog directly as the functions for finding videos from your own channel or even just searching YouTube to place the video on the blog are not working terribly well for me.

Anyway, welcome and enjoy!